California’s insurance hell is destroying lives — here’s what the top commissioner candidates say they’ll do

Source: New York Post

California’s insurance crisis has left homeowners scrambling for coverage, businesses paying soaring premiums and thousands of residents forced on to the state’s insurer of last resort after major companies pulled back from the market following years of devastating wildfires. Now, the race to replace termed-out Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has become one of the state’s most consequential elections, with the three leading candidates offering starkly different visions for fixing what many Californians see as a broken system. Democratic state Sen.